I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, funded by the ERC Project “Housing, Inequality and Public Policy” supervised by Sebastian Siegloch.

I obtained a PhD from Paris School of Economics and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in December 2025, under the supervision of Laurent Gobillon (PSE) and Pierre-Philippe Combes (Sciences Po).

I’m also an affiliate of the LIEPP in Sciences Po. I was a 2023 Palladio Foundation fellow

I spent Spring 2023 as a visiting scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by Gilles Duranton. I also visited the FGV EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance in Rio de Janeiro in July 2023, hosted by Sophie Mathes, and Berlin Quantitative Spatial Economics in July 2026, hosted by Gabriel Ahlfeldt.

I am on the 2026–27 economics job market

My research lies at the intersection of urban economics and environmental economics. I combine novel granular geospatial data, causal inference methods, and quantitative spatial models to study how land-use regulations shape housing markets and affordability, with a focus on the role of environmental policies in building urban resilience to climate change.

My Job Market Paper studies natural-risk zoning in France, showing how regulation affects where and how housing is built, how risk is capitalized into prices, and how these responses translate into welfare effects through spatial reallocation and general-equilibrium adjustments.

My CV is available here.

You can reach out at paul-venturine [at] wiso [dot] uni [dash] koeln [dot] de